> On Thu, 24 Jun 1999 23:41:34 -0700 (PDT)
> Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> wrote:
>
> > More generally a system unique identifier available early (pre mountroot)
> > could be useful for a number of things. Why're you asking?
>
> The intended usage:
>
> (1) Could influence where it is stored.
Yes.
>
> (2) Might be utterly useless (e.g. for software licensing,
> especially when you have the source for the OS, and
> can thus make it anything you want with a simple
> kernel hack...)
I'm not really concerned about this.